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Other than pretty printing the output, what does this offer that curl doesn't already do?

hassyOP

A few things :)

Syntax highlighting

Request performance waterfalls

Built-in JMESPath queries for JSON (same syntax as in AWS CLI). XML and HTML can be queried too.

Ability to set checks on the response. This one is super handy for quick acceptance tests.

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